Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:51:36 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? |
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Frank de Lange wrote:
> PATCHED 8390.c (using irq_safe spinlocks instead of disable_irq) > PATCHED apic.c (focus cpu ENABLED) > STOCK io_apic.c > > No problems under heavy network load. > > Gentleman, this (the patch to 8390.c) seems to fix the problem.
great. Back when i had the same problem, flood pinging another host (on the local network) was the quickest way to reproduce the hang:
ping -f -s 10 otherhost
this produced an IOAPIC-hang within seconds.
Ingo
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